Re: Questions about auto-submitting from spam traps (and trust) (fwd)

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Justin Shore, on 2003-09-25, wrote:

> This is a good question.  Should incoming mail be "checked" first to see
> if it is already known or should it just be submitted regardless?  I
> currently have a procmail recipe that reports incoming spam with
> spamassassin -r and 'pyzor report.' Knowing what is preferred here would
> be a big help.

Simply reporting is fine.  If someone is looking at the count of reports 
in the pyzor database, you will contribute to their knowledge.

> When my spamtraps get spammed I tend to get hundreds or thousands of
> copies of the same spam.  They come from different proxies all over the
> world but they have the same body.  I don't know of a way for me to
> filter out duplicates in an auto-submission process.  I don't know if
> it's a possibility at all.

Don't worry about duplicates.  If you really wanted to avoid it, though, 
it's easiy with formail (part of procmail); it has a built-in capability.

> Agreed.  I'm doing this as a service to the community.  It would be nice
> to know if what I'm doing is actually getting through and having any
> effect.  Suggestions?

Pyzor really can't provide you with any such feedback.  I admit it is
definitely a desirable charactistic of volunteer-based systems.  I'll 
try to keep it in mind.

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Frank Tobin			http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/